Darcy and Dustin

Dustin came flying around the corner on his brand new motor scooter. He is thrilled and he has to go show it off. First stop was Rachel's house. "How could he show it to her first? Was she outside when he came to the street? Does he like her more then me?"Darcy asked herself. "No, Im way prettier and way better in everything, so she must have been outside when he came up."

"DUSTINNNN," Darcy yells demandingly across to the next drive way to get her best friend's and boyfriend's attention. Dustin looks up and waves and resumes right back to the conversation he was having with Rachel. Darcy becomes livid but refused to walk across the street because Dustin should always come to her. Now i am just going to  sit here and rant and rave about how mad i am at you. How could you do this to me i am you're girlfriend you know. What were you thinking stopping at HER house first? she's my best friend not yours. im going to get her to tell me everything you told her cause she listens to me and you dont. sucks for you

holiday

"Good morning, Darcy" Darcy's mom peeks her head in the room to wake her up before school. "Get up and get ready your Dad and I have some Valentine's Day goodies for you on the counter, and you have to look extra cute today because maybe someone will have a valentine waiting for them at school." Darcy groans, rolls over, and pulls the covers up over her head. She does not care that it her old favorite holiday. Darcy begins to force herself to cough faintly but loud enough for her mother to hear from down the hall. Her mother doesn't respond to her coughing so it becomes for forceful and loud. Pretty soon she gets so desperate to get her moms attention she screams at the top of her lungs. 

"MOM!" 

"Yes, dear?" Her mom strolls in calmly as if she had just heard her name being called lightly from the room next door. 

"I do not feel good. I can not go to school today." 

"Oh really? What is feeling bad?"

"Everything." Darcy says weakly with her face still under the covers. Darcy's mom sits on the edge of the bed and sets her hand on Darcy leg still under neither the covers. 

character conflicts

-fighting over a boyfriend

-not getting homecoming princess

-gaining 5 pounds

I see my character freaking out the most about on of these three "problems" because these are the kinds of things that matter to her. 

Her mom is the same way she is so she will be extremely sympathetic and comforting during her time of struggling. 

lawn jockeys

The autor chooses to write this story from a 12 year olds perspective which takes a lot of time and practice to get it write. He takes the imagination of a young boy this age and makes it so realistic that you actually think for a minute that the talking statues could be real life. The way the author gets into the boys heads with the witty comments of the lawn jockeys and his blunt questions to the lady he mows the lawn for makes the detail of the story very captivating.

surrounded by sleep

Reading this story is hard to relate to because I have never been in such a situation before. They story is very well written and kept my attention although it was a little long to the plot of the story. I do not understand why the author did not end the story with what had happened with the brother Amen. I also did not like how the author choose to tell the brother that it was his fault he prayed for his test over praying for his brother.

character upset over a certain element

"How could he cheat on me!" Amy screams at the top of her lungs. "Me doing that stuff with Marcus is completely different! Who does he think he is? He is going to regret this, I just know it!"
Allison sits there anxious, anticipating Amy's next words being, "I know it was you," but begging that she was clueless about who he was cheating on her with. Amy falls into Allison's lap and lets her makeup filled tears fall all over Amy's pajama pants. Allison doesn't even notice her mascara stained because she so nervous about what Amy is going to say about the hole situation next. Allison rubs Amy's head comfortingly and lets the girl just cry and cry and cry.

continued story..

Amy looks around the room in a panic to make sure there is not any evidence that he had been here recently. She tries to stay clam and collected as sees Allison pacing around the room. Amy tries to sit Allison down so she does not find anything that could let the secret out. Allison laughs through her tears when she sees a picture of her and Amy posing by the armadillo when they were 6 year old. Amy would never stand that close to an armadillo now. She laughs even harder when she see the picture of the two of them after a crazy Thanksgiving weekend curled up on the couch eating popcorn and watching a movie. These pictures clams her down just long enough for her to spit out the words, "I love you best friend." Amy looks away and avoids the statement all though. She can not hear those words right now. She feels bad enough as it is. Guilt falls over her and she become sick to her stomach.

Yay for Twilight.

Its a fairy tale. A love story between two characters who are forbidden to love. A Romeo and Juliet classic that incorporates vampires, humans, and wolfs as the family rivalries. It is a well written story and there should be no bashing on the story of twilight but the other stories that have come off the story twilight have gone to far with the obsession with vampires.
There is no reason to punish the story or the writer but it is the obsessors who have taken this hole vampire phenomenon way to far that need to snap back into reality.
We are shown a classic love story that brings together to people who truly love and care about each other.

War in the World

When the word war come into your head you we get a metal picture full of fighting guns, killing, hatred and death. None of those things are beautiful to this world. War only promotes hate and despair among communities and countries. If American used there efforts of the war in iraq to help countries in need we would be a much more peaceful country. W would put out billions of dollars we use annually towards helping out third world countries instead on killing people we would be becoming one step close to achieving the ultimate goal: World peace.
Although we are fighting off the bad people in these foreign countries, we are killing more innocent people then bad people in the efforts to "keep our freedom." We should not only stop fighting and killing but we should also promote other countries in war to cease fire as well.

THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF MY OPINION! this was a english assignment.